Rail joint and chair.



L. `HUNYADI.

RAIL JOINT AND CHAIR. l APPLIoATloN FILED un. 24. 1914.

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A`L. HUNYADI.

RAIL JGINT `AND CHAIR. APPLIOATION FILED APR. 24. 1914.

Patented July 21, 1914,

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LOUIS HUNYADI, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO.

BAIL JOINT AND CHAIR.

To ollwiwmit'ma concern-.-

B e it known at- I, Louis HUNYADI, a subjeotlotthe Kling of Hungaresiding at Cleveland, iin the county o l' ymlmga and Stute of Ohio,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail Joints and(Tlciiirs, of which the following is a specifi- This invention relatesto new and useful improvements in rail joint and chair.

The primary object ofA this invention is to provide a joining means forthe adjacent ends of railway rails obviating the use of the ordinaryfish plates and requiring no bolts or removable locking means.

A further object is to rovide a connecting block for railway rai s andadapted for hook engagement with the ends of adjacent rails wherebythe'rai-ls are securely connected together in accurate alinement withoutthe employment of any other means while thev connecting block providesan intermediate short section of rail tread.

j A still further object is to provide a connecting block slidablyengaging'a rail chair and having a short track section adapted of tworails illustrating one rbein illustrated in dot for connecting togetherthe adjacent ends of track rails.

With these general objects in view and others that will appear as thenature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in thenovel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described,illust-rated in the accompanyin drawings and pointed out in the appendeclaim.

In the drawings forming a part offthis a plication and in which likedesignating c araoters refer to corresponding parts throughout theseveral views :-Figure 1 is a side eleva-tion of two rails provided withthe present joining block mounted upon a rail chair, portions beingbroken away. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof. Fi 3 is a verticaltransverse sectional view ta en upon line III- III of Fig. 1. Fig; 4 1san enlarged side elevation of the connecting block positioned betweenthe end portions of said rail portions in the assembling tggeration, thesame lines in its complete y connected position. 5 is a per'- spectiveview of the connecting .block detached. Fig. 6 is a rspectiye view ofthe end ortion of a rai and Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the mountingportion of a Specification of Letters Patent. pliblftin Bled April 24,1914'. 'Se'llll N0. 834,117.

nel rail. The connecting with sockets 19 at its opposite ends andcoinchair or end portion of a tie adapted for su porting the connectingblock.

eferring more in detail to the drawings, two rails 10 and3 11 areillustrated of identical form and designed when taken with theconnecting blocks shown in Fig. 5 for forming the continuous rails ofthe railroad PatentedJuly 21, 1914.

track. A rail chair or metallic tie adapted l for seating a rail uponeach opposite end thereof is provided of the form illustrated in Fig, 7and bei-ng formed of a channel bar 12 having opposite out away notches13 in each opposite side 14 thereof and adapted to communicate with thetop slot 15 of the channel bar.

A connecting block as illustrated in Fig. 5 ias supplied with a centralrail portion 16 having a supporting web 17 with longitudinal base Ranges18, which flanges are adapted fior sliding reception within the notcheslof the channel rail 12 with the web 17 of the block itioned in the slet15 of said chanblock is provided municating with the vertical slots 20of the web 17 and which slots '2O are open at their tops and ends5 thesockets 19 having one in clined inner face 21 and the upper edges of theweb 17 on each side of the slots 20 having inclined faces 22 adjacentthe tread portion 16 of the block. The opposite ends of the rails 10 and11 are formed identically with hooks 23 outwardly projecting from therail web 24 while the rail web is out away beneath the hook 23 formingan inclined lower surface 25 merging with the outwardly slanting end 26of the base flange 27 of the rail.

Tith the provision of the rail chair shown in Fig. 7, the block 17 isreadily positioned thereon by sliding the block into the top opening ofthe c air and with the bloc tread 16 positioned transversely of thechair and above the opening therein as bestl illustrated in Fig. 2. Thetwo rails 10 and 11 are then readily attached to the block by tiltingthe rails suiciently to allow an insertion of the end hook 23 into theblock socket 19 as illustrated in Fig. 4 which forms upon com letion asolid lockln engagement between t e rail end and the b ook and with theslanting face 21 of the socket 19 enga in the inner inclined face 28 ofthe hoo 23. The inclined faces 22 of the slotted web portions accommodate the end of the rail 11e tread when the rail end is being hooked tothe connecting block. It will be seen that with the block securelypositioned upon the vvchair or the tie the two rails may be thus readilyengaged with the opposite ends of the block and with the tread ortion 16of' the block in alinement with t e tread portions of the two connectedrails and thus forming a continuous track rail. It should be noted thatupon a completion of the formation of the rail as illustrated in Fig. 4with the rail 11 engaging the block, that the track is then continued byengaging the rail l0 with the opposite side of the block while a furtherblock is then connected in a similar manner to the free end of the rail10 and another rail connected to said rail 10 by a similar engagementwith the newly added block and in which manner the continuous track railmay be speedily built up without the employment of fish plates or vboltsof any form.

While the forms of the invention herein shown and described are what arebelieved to be preferable embodiments thereof, it is nevertheless to beunderstood that minor changes may be made in the form, proportion anddetails of construction without departing from the spirit and scopeofthe invention as set forth in the appended claim.

What I claim as new is:-

A device ,of the class described comprising a block having a flangedbase, a tread portion and a web between said base and tread portion,portions of the said web extended from op site ends of the tread portionand providiii with slots open at their tops and ends, the upper faces ofthe web having inclined faces on opposite sides of said slots andadjacent the ends of said web portion, a rail having a` hooked extensionupon the web portion thereof and with the web of the rail cut awaybeneath the said hook forming an inclined face therebeneath, the saidhook having an inclined inner face, the web of said block havingrecesses with outer inclined faces and positioned beneath each end ofthe tread portion and adapted-` for the reception of said hook with theinclined face of the hook in seating engagel ment with the said recessface and with the rail tread in alinement with the tread of the block. f

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature .in presence of two witnesses.

LOUIS HUNYADI. IVitnesses ALEXANDER WEIZER, GEORGE WACHTER.

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